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notes, as in modern flute playing, an entire chromatic scale can be 

 produced ; and doubtless further investigation and experiment will 

 give us more definite information on these points. The use of the 

 harmonic notes is the more likely when it is considered that the 

 fundamental tones more easily produced are of very light quality and 

 weak tone ; and as these flutes were the kind used in funeral pro- 

 cessions, their sound would be lost in the shufiling of feet ; whereas 

 the harmonic tones are more penetrating and would not be so easily 

 lost. 



Of course each new discovery in any department of science is 

 considered as all important, very often as the furthest possible reach of 

 investigation. We are apt to think it is impossible that anything more 

 can be done in the way of rapid travel than the modern express train 

 or the Atlantic greyhound. Still the experience of the past has shown 

 us that there are more wonders to come. Notwithstanding past expe- 

 rience, one cannot help feeling that it is very unlikely that we can 

 get any nearer to the creation of the world in the matter of musical 

 history. And that these discoveries bring us very near to the 

 beginning of the world's history is evident when you reflect that we 

 have discovered flutes which were in use when the matters recorded 

 in the earlier chapters of the Book of Exodus were being enacted in 

 Egypt. It is exceedingly unlikely that any instruments of greater 

 antiquity can be discovered, and it is hard to imagine in what other 

 way any authentic information can be discovered. Truly, however, 

 we hve in an age of wonders, and there is no telling but within the 

 next few years, some of the indefatigable gentlemen who are contin- 

 ually excavating, deciphering and interpreting in those distant 

 Eastern lands, may turn up the tomb, mummy and musical library 

 and instruments of Jubal himself ; and then, surely, we shall be as 

 far back as it is possible to go, if Genesis IV, 21, is a rehable record, 

 as we have all been taught to believe. 



